The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-08
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

lOCUNSlN OIAlE NEWS.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2. 771s077szc.
Corn-No. 2, 371g(031l4c. Oats-No. 2, Bile
Rye-No. ], 56c. Barley No. 2, 529lc.
John G. Hoelzel, wanted in Milwaukee
for trying to poison an uncle, was capt
ured in New York City few days ago.
William Koeller, Of Milwaukee, identified
the prison.
Sheboygan is trying to secure the free
delivery system.
Charles Oehler, German, twenty-eight
years old, who was taken into the Central
station at Milwaukee a few days ago on a
charge OF drunk and disorderly, made
three attempts at suicide. He was sent to
the insane asylum.
The saw-mills at Eau Claire will be run
on the ten-hour system this year
A street has been set aside in Appleton
for horse-racing
Edward Bradley, the Ypsilanti mich. ]
boy supposed to have derailed Wisconsin
Central trains several times near Eau
Claire, was sent to jail in that city few
days ago for vagrancy for lack OF evidence
on any other charge.
7. n. Williamson, secretary of the Wis.
consin Shoe Company at GAINESVILLE, was
recently arrested for the ENLIGHTENMENT Of
$1,000, but the concern is said to have lost
100000 at the hands of thieves.
Twenty-six young men of Oconomowoc
organized silk hat club recently.
Barney Allen was sentenced, at Menon1-
inee the other day to four years in prison
for robbing Carson e Rand's safe at Eau
Gale, last summer, of $3.50. On his infor-
nation Charles Hunter was arrested at
Woodman and Thomas Gaines at Eau Gale
for completely in the crime.
The last Of the logging camps on Chip
pewa and Eau Claire rivers and tributaries
broke up a few days ago and the five
thousand employed in the pineries during
the winter were nearly all out Of the
woods. The log cut was heavier than the
previous winter, which was 500, 900 600,
and. including logs left over last fall, the
total log stock this spring is about 800, oo0,-
900, or 101,000,000 more than in the spring
of 1886. The prospect for drive was
good, as there was two or three feet of
snow in the woods, though it was not avail
able for logging. There would be little
lumber sawed in the valley till the last OF
April.
The Government Inspector of military
schools will inspect the State University
Battalion some time in May.
The Oliver Wendell Holmes hospital at
Hudson is rapidly nearing completion and
is to be formally dedicated June Z. Several
notables from abroad will participate.
Captain j. Christensen, well-known
vessel-owner and wood merchant, fell
~rroiY, c+. h11r-
days ago and cut his thigh to the bone
George H. Abbott, brother of the singer,
Emma Abbott, died at his residence in
Waukesha the other afternoon. Mr. Alb.
bott was for years subject to heart diff
Guilty, and suffered at intervals the great.
est agony, The deceased was thirty-nine
years of age. He leaves a wife, two beau
tiful children and Oh aged mother, besides
two sisters and two brothers, to mourn his
loss
A beautiful stained glass window, which
cost Sl35, has been presented to the Epis-
copal Church on the Oneida Indian reser-
walton, in Brown County, by four young
ladies.
Comrade M. Griffin, Commander of the
Department of Wisconsin, announces staff
appointments as follows: Assistant Adju-
tant- General G. A. Barry, Eau Claire; AS
sistant Quartermaster-Ge Charles W.
Mott, Milwaukee; Judge Advocate, w. Il
Beebe, Platteville; Inspector, L. Fergu-
son, Brandon; Chief Mastering Officer,
James Miles, Reedsburg.
Levi NJ Villas, brother of the Postmaster
General, has decided to remove from Eau
Claire, where he has resided many years,
to ST. Paul, Mimi, where he will continue
the practice Of law.
The brick residence of James Ingraham,
at Madison, was Quilted by fire the other
morning, the damage being So, 500; insur-
ance, $4,000. Mabel, the nineteen-year-ol old
daughter of Mr.. Ingraham, was nearly sui.
located in her bed, and was conveyed to
neighbors IN an unconscious condition.
The La Crosse Cremation Society has
called for plans and estimates for ere.
matory.
Ashland is experiencing the greatest real
estate boom that has ever been known in
street, which could be bought week ago
for from $1,000 to 81, 500 each, are now sell
ing for from SIS, 900 to $12, 000
Mrs. Cameron, wife of Ex-senator Angus
Cameron, threw herself in the river at La
Crosse the other night She was taken out
in an unconscious condition but was soon
restored. Mrs Cameron has had several
violent nervous attacks, and this evident
attempt to take her own life is the result
of one OF the most severe she has expert
enced.
Peter Schumacher, of Milwaukee, an in
sane veteran of the Fourth Wisconsin Cav.
airy, has been allowed pension of seven
tytwo dollars per month. The first pay
ment will be $12,59
Captain E. S. Stone has sued the city of
Oconomowoc for leasing its new hall for
concerts, Dances ETC., thereby coming into
competition with hall which he owns.
The case was likely to go to the Supreme
Court.
In the Black River Falls lumber region
CHAMBERS has broken out among horses.
State Veterinarian Atkinson, of MilWau-
kee, visited that region a few days ago and
killed several of the animals afflicted
Samuel Klauber, wealthy Jewish dry
goods and clothing merchant at Madison,
died a few days ago.
Jacob Henry, aged fourteen years, was
sent to Jail 70 eight days at Eau Claire re-
Gently for throwing vitr1ol at musician
named Fowler. The boy did not know the
dangerous nature of the liquid.
In Eau Claire the other day Thoma
Dougherty, alias Connors noted burglar,
was sentenced to four years in the peni.
tertiary for a crime recently commis5ed
there.
A train of twenty cars of bottled beer
left Milwaukee for the Pacific coast few
days ago.
Superintendent Whitehead, of the Mil
waukee Humane Society, secured the ar
rest of Patrick Connors and William Cor
coran few days ago the owners of two
dogs, who allowed the animals to fight
near the city.
Over dozen prominent Milwaukeeans
have gone to Ashland to invest in real es-
tate and reap harvest out of the boom
there. The craze continued undated and
fortunes were being made in town lots
daily.
At recent meeting of the Sheboygan
County Board of Trade resolutions were
adopted asking the Wisconsin State Dairy
mems Association to provide suitable APP
paratus and procure competent experts
and hold themselves in readiness when